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 out of the harbor, and headed for quiet water, passing along the coast of the island, toward Providence.

Gladys, who was a capital sailor, rather viciously suggested going "outside" into the rough waters of the open sea, but she was silenced by a sharp rebuke from Mrs. Fallow-Deer, who grew pale at the very thought. The ladies of the "Boston gang" seemed no better pleased at the idea, and the Dolphin, abandoning all hopes of a tumble with the waves, cut the quiet waters evenly with her sharp prow.

Miss Carleton expatiated upon the joys of riding over the big waves.

Mr. Larkington was presented first to one and then to another of the ladies, with all of whom he found himself quite at home in a short time.

Their names he was somewhat puzzled by; many of them he had never before met with in any part of the world. One pretty married woman with an